- Judy Blunt
Judy Blunt (born 1954) is an American
writer fromMontana . She was raised on a ranch in a remote area nearRegina, Montana , south ofMalta, Montana . Blunt received her M.F.A. from the University of Montana in 1994. She received a Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship and a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship. Her essays and poems have appeared in such publications as "The New York Times", "Big Sky Journal" and "Oprah Magazine". In 2001, she won the the Whiting Writers' Award.She later turned the tales of her ranch life into an award-winning memoir, titled "
Breaking Clean " (Knopf 2002), which won the PenJerard Fund Award, Mountains and Plains Nonfiction Book Award, Willa Cather Literary Award, and was one ofThe New York Times ' Notable Books. Blunt currently resides inMissoula, Montana where she teaches at theUniversity of Montana .Bibliography
*"
Breaking Clean ", Knopf: 2002 (hardcover), ISBN 0-375-40131-8References
External links
* [http://www.powells.com/authors/blunt.html Powells.com interview]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=2624 Random House author bio]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A13321-2002Feb15¬Found=true Washington Post review of] "Breaking Clean "
* [http://randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/blunt/excerpt.html Excerpt from] "Breaking Clean "
* [http://www.umt.edu/urelations/MainHall/302/blunt.htm U of M bio/press release]
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